Backlit
Backlit
Podcast Description
Backlit is a series of groundbreaking conversations with emerging authors. Hosted by Abena Ntoso, each empowering discussion goes behind the literature and beyond it, inspiring intellectual and creative engagement around social issues. Built on authentic curiosity and camaraderie, Backlit transcends literary discourse to become a generative space documenting the emergence of new perspectives and new possibilities for life and work.
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The show explores topics such as gender dynamics in literature, the intersection of ecology and writing, and the evolution of work in modern society, with episodes like Just Labor featuring poet Laura-Gray Street discussing themes such as writing as a journey of discovery and the role of privilege in storytelling.
Backlit is a series of groundbreaking conversations with emerging authors. Hosted by Abena Ntoso, each empowering discussion goes behind the literature and beyond it, inspiring intellectual and creative engagement around social issues. Built on authentic curiosity and camaraderie, Backlit transcends literary discourse to become a generative space documenting the emergence of new perspectives and new possibilities for life and work.
How does hybridity shape identity and culture? What new possibilities arise when we connect across languages, cultures, time and space? In this episode of Backlit, poet and scholar Andrew Geoffrey Kwabena Moss joins me in imagining possibilities for the future, inspired by his latest poetry collection Hybrid Heaven and Other(ed) Poems. Imaginative and liberating, Moss’s work examines how the blending of cultures, languages, ideas, time, and space creates new possibilities for literature and life.
Topics discussed:
- Hybridity and literary influences
- Afropean influences in music, fashion, and literature
- Bricolage and growing up with a hybridity of cultures
- Afrofuturism in contemporary culture
- Global and extraplanetary exploration
- Building your own “library for liberation”
- Connecting with people across languages and cultures
- Crafting a third thing
Links:
- Episode Webpage
- Purchase Hybrid Heaven by Andrew Geoffrey Kwabena Moss
- Purchase Japanapandon by Andrew Geoffrey Kwabena Moss
- Author Website: Andrew Geoffrey Kwabena Moss
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